Kiel
Last seen for girls in 1993 at #13,442 · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to boys 98.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1983 · 279 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,505since 1961
Kiel over time
Rank among boys' names. Kiel has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #10,695 | 6 | |
| 2024 | — | #10,938 | 6 | |
| 2023 | — | #6,220 | 14 | |
| 2022 | — | #8,990 | 8 | |
| 2021 | — | #9,714 | 7 | |
| 2020 | — | #6,620 | 12 | |
| 2019 | — | #7,173 | 11 | |
| 2018 | — | #7,136 | 11 | |
| 2017 | — | #5,788 | 15 | |
| 2016 | — | #8,146 | 9 | |
| 2015 | — | #10,644 | 6 | |
| 2014 | — | #7,048 | 11 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,981 | 18 | |
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| 2011 | — | #7,502 | 10 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,478 | 16 | |
| 2009 | — | #9,864 | 7 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,714 | 20 | |
| 2007 | — | #5,210 | 17 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,223 | 22 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,326 | 20 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,860 | 23 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,626 | 24 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,909 | 21 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,721 | 22 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,476 | 38 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,560 | 34 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,199 | 41 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,991 | 45 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,047 | 42 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,736 | 51 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,643 | 55 | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #1,554 | 58 |
| 1992 | — | #1,546 | 57 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,589 | 53 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,294 | 73 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,184 | 81 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,076 | 85 | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | #846 | 122 |
| 1986 | — | #663 | 183 | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #591 | 221 |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #532 | 262 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | #502 | 279 |
| 1982 | — | #623 | 194 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,101 | 68 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,134 | 9 | |
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
| 1977 | — | #4,164 | 8 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,012 | 8 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,902 | 13 | |
| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,013 | 11 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,152 | 10 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,558 | 14 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,282 | 9 | |
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| 1968 | — | #3,365 | 7 | |
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| 1965 | — | #2,617 | 10 | |
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| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kiel! It came in at #4,065, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1964, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kiel
- 243 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #10,695)
- 4,075 spots since 2020 (#6,620 → #10,695)
- 51 spots since 2015 (#10,644 → #10,695)
- Biggest jump: 478 spots in 1982 (#1,101 → #623)
- Biggest drop: 230 spots in 1988 (#846 → #1,076)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 1983 at #502 (279 births)
- Births halved by 1987, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1982–1987
- Highest: 1 in 6,425 boys born in 1983 were named Kiel (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 60.0% of all boys named Kiel (1,504) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 27 | #2,617 (1965) | #3,520 |
| 1970s | 91 | #2,558 (1971) | #3,833 |
| 1980s | 1,504 | #502 (1983) | #1,125 |
| 1990s | 509 | #1,294 (1990) | #1,816 |
| 2000s | 214 | #2,476 (2000) | #4,593 |
| 2010s | 107 | #4,981 (2013) | #7,100 |
| 2020s | 53 | #6,220 (2023) | #8,863 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kiel in 1984
Top girls' names in 1984
Top boys' names in 1984
More about 1984
girls
1,683,817 girls got a published name in 1984; 1 in 336,763 of them was named Kiel, which outranked 14.4% of the 12,181 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,759 names at #10,422; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,804,848 boys got a published name in 1984; 1 in 6,889 of them was named Kiel, which outranked 92.8% of the 7,341 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.